Item Details
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:. illustrated in Six Volumes (Riverside Edition).
Boston, MA: Houghton, Osgood and Company/Riverside Press, 1879-1882. First Edition thus (presumed). Limp Leather. Vol. 1: Voices of the Night, etc.; Vol. 2: Maccabaeus Michael Angelo, Etc.; Vol. 3: Christus, A Mystery; Vol. 4: Tales of a Wayside Inn; Vol. 5: Birds of Passage, Etc.; Vol. 6: Evangeline, Hiawatha, Miles Standish. N.B. Publisher copyright date is 1879, however, Longfellow's copyright dates start in 1851 and ends with 1878 (Vol.1), the publisher's date (it was reprinted by Cambridge Press in 1902). Nice set of this wonderful collection. From the library of Connecticut College Library. Very Good+. No DJ. Light shelf/edge wear, musty, some corners very gently bumped, toning to edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black pebbled limp leather over boards, gilt lettering, top of text block in gilt, frontispiece (Vol. 1), marbled endpapers, five raised bands. Large 8vo. 6 volumes. Illus. (b/w plates). Appendix. Index. Ex-library bookplate, embossed and circulation slip on verso ep. Item #12672
Price: $275.00